Blog 5

 Assalamualaikum Warrahmatullahi Wabarokatuh..

Hi all, back again to my blog.  This is the fifth blog that I have made about activities and what I have learned in the English for journalism course this semester.  I hope you don't feel bored to read my blog articles, because who knows the article will make you know what things I learned in the course.  After writing this blog article, I will share the link on my social media posts, then you can access it for free.  Ok let's discuss one by one.

The activity at this fifth meeting was carried out on September 28, 2021, but there was no virtual meeting, only doing some tasks in the Syam-ok LMS.  The assignment is in the form of videos and reading articles that have been provided there.  Before doing the quiz, we have to watch the youtube video then leave a comment there, then screenshot the proof of our comment which will later be posted into the comment upload task section.  Only then can we continue working on the next quizzes.

At that time, the first assignment given was about interviewing sources with Wh questions such as what, who, where, when and why.  The word order for Wh questions is helping verb, subject and main verb. Wh questions are in the simple past progressive forms using helping verb like was/were and the -ing form of the main verb.

The next material is about Interviewing sources - reliability facts & opinion

In the material we learn about the different types of sources. The are four main types of sources.

1. Eye-witnesses means that the people who actually see something happen.

2. Related people means that a person who is related to someone who plays and important part in the story.

3. Experts means that the experts will probably work in.

4. People in authority means that it could be the owner. These type of sources are usually the hardest to interview because the person in authority might not want to talk about what has happened especially if they're responsible.

The next material is about languages focus quoting sources and reporting verbs. A quote is a group of words or sentence that someone else says. Any two general reasons that journalists use the quotes there first is to show what a person said and how they said it. A quote in intorduce by identifying the speaker and reporting verb. There are two ways to report of someone said in an interview are quatations and reported speech.

The next material is about taking notes. There are three different strategies, there are three different strategies:

1. Using abbrevations is shortened form of a word or phrase. This means they can write much faster. The important thing is that must be able to recognize when look it later. Two main ways of abbreviating a word is take out the vowels and the other ways is use the first syllable of the word. 

2. Using symbols that means a picture that represents something like word or phrase.

3. The third is indentation means a line of text begins further to the right and to show that something is part of a large idea.

The next material is about focus on using reported speech. There are two things about when changing a quote to reported speech: 

1. The form of the verb when a quote is changed to reported speech, the form of the verb needs to move back.

2. The second is the pronouns words such as I, we, he, she and etc.

The next material is about print media or written news sources and the process and structure of writing a news story. There are steps to create an outline. An outline only focuses on where the sentences will go in the article. The next is drafting is to know the order of the ideas. The draft is completed it's taken to a copy editor who ensures that an article is clear. The final draft is sent to print. There are several parts of structure in the news story is:

1. Created headline

2. Byline

3. Lead 

4. Body 

5. Conclusion.

The next material is about types of lead. There are three types of leads:

1. Summary lead content of a news story with first paragraph of an article with the main facts of the story. In this type of lead it's clear what happened who is involved and where and when it occured. 

2. Anecdotal lead is a personal story to grab the attention of the reader or makes the reader interested in reading.

3. Contrast lead which means the author uses opposite ideas or facts to grab the reader's attention.

The next matetial is about creating the lead. The summary lead has an example of some of the do's and don'ts of writing a summary news lead. Do's containt about give Wh information with what, when, where, who and why. The journalist was transparent about their process for finding that information.The next do is be spesific means giving exact details. The final do is be brief means being short or using few words.

And the last material is about type of grammar called subject verb agreement and how to make sure the subject in a lead agrees with the verb. Then the third person singular subject these word every such as everything, everyone, everybody, everywhere. All subjects involving the word so they agree every single word. The same idea for the words that begin with no such as nobody, nowhere, nothing, there are always single. In general subject-verb agreement is fairly simple.

ok that's all I can share in this meeting, if you want to give suggestions please write them in the comments column.

Thank you..

Wasaalamualaikum Warrahmatullahi Wabarokatuh.